Richard Adhikari

Sometimes it pays to wait a few weeks. VMware introduced Update 2 for both its ESX 3.5 hypervisor and ESXi 3.5 free hypervisor at the end of July with much fanfare. Then, at midnight on August 12, both went awry. A piece of code in the hypervisor expired the products, which meant that users could […]

Fortune 500 companies abandon more than one-third of software-development projects after implementation because they don’t meet user needs, according to a study released today by analyst firm Voke Media. The survey was conducted from April through July. That sees a lot of money squandered — the average project costs $3.2 million and requires almost 1,300 […]

Listen up, boys and girls, the mainframe is not dead; in fact, it’s very much alive. Every few years, people predict that the mainframe is on its last legs and will be taken over by the technology du jour. That replacement technology has ranged over the years from client-server computing to Web-based computing, and, now, […]

IBM has unveiled eDiscovery Manager, a software product that lets enterprises manage electronically stored information so that they can retrieve it easily when a legal challenge requires e-discovery. The term e-discovery stands for ‘electronic discovery’ and refers to discovery in civil litigation dealing with information in electronic form. Enterprises are being forced to adopt e-discovery […]

If setting up and implementing Oracle environments makes your database administrators break out in a sweat, help may be at hand. Yesterday the company announced its VM Templates suite, which combines Oracle’s Database 11G, Enterprise Manager 10g, Siebel CRM 8 and Enterprise Linux. All of the apps come preinstalled and preconfigured. Database administrators just copy […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Vendors of virtual machines must ensure their products are interoperable, or they will lock customers into yet another proprietary stack, nullifying the promise of anytime, anywhere computing on any platform offered by virtualization. This was the major theme of Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS) chief technology officer Simon Crosby’s keynote speech Thursday at […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Optimists say the best things in life are free; realists say yes, but anything that’s free costs way too much. Nowhere is that more applicable than in open source (define) software. Enterprises using open source are being sued for not complying with the multitude of licenses the software comes with. The problem […]

Source: LinuxWorld SAN FRANCISCO — As enterprises virtualize their environments and move toward the next-generation datacenter, the network will enable this move, Rajiv Ramaswami, vice president and general manager of Cisco, said yesterday. In his keynote speech yesterday at the Next Generation Data Center and LinuxWorld conferences, held concurrently at San Francisco’s Moscone Center this […]

A slew of contenders old and new are coming out swinging in the market for add-on software and services for virtualization. The latest contenders looking for a share of the enterprise virtualization dollar are focusing on monitoring and management software and virtualized test management. These are key support technologies to ensure compliance and make sure […]

While crime fighters are buzzing about malware (define), SQL injections (define), phishing(define) and other similarly fascinating acts by cybercriminals, the really bad guys are within the corporate firewalls. A study conducted in late 2007 by ID Analytics, which offers identity intelligence on demand, found that from three to 36 percent of identities stolen by internal […]